Okay - so this week Osama (Usama??) Bin Laden was killed in his hiding place by a group of very brave and effective US Navy Seals. The news follow up has been a mess. Debates about showing his body, his bullet wounds, his burial at sea (should it have been in the nearest piece of sand off shore from the carrier?). Does our president get "credit for it". Depends on your politics apparently. In my opinion, none of that at all the key thing.
Bin Laden directly murdered no where near the number of people whom he directly caused to be murdered. He sold his vision of a bronze age Islamic republic/world to many many others. He sold them on how and why to do it in the "name of God". Some of those folks sacrificed their life for his cause and led to the killing and injuring of thousands of others. He wasn't the trigger man most of the time, but he sure was the evil driver, the persuader, the sales man for terrible terrible things.
Worlds away in the bosum of suburbia, I don't have any reason to believe that a retaliation will hit my home or family. But now and for the forseeable future people will want to "avenge" their "martyr". Something has to make this stop. But how?
People of faith in God should know that whatever that being is, there is no way that killing innocents should ever be done in his/her/its name. And if you are an atheist, agnostic or even pagan, the bottom line is the same. We share this world and have to learn to take care of each other - and that pre-cludes killing, stealing or terrorizing some one whos religious beliefs differ from us. Its just wrong.
So, no matter who is the salesperson - Pol Pot, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Bin Laden or Qaddafi (sp??), the Inquisitor of the Holy Roman Empire, Kings, Emperors, etc - don't EVER ever buy what they are selling. The world must learn this lesson or it will come to an early end.
Peace.
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